This is an amazing film. Have any of you seen it? It's a science fiction/drama about a girl named Rhoda with a bright future. On the night she finds out she was accepted into MIT, she kills three people in a drunk driving accident. At the same moment, another Earth is discovered. Same people, same places. And she's left to wonder - did the other me make the same mistake? Are those three people still alive on the other Earth? SO. FASCINATING.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Another Earth
This is an amazing film. Have any of you seen it? It's a science fiction/drama about a girl named Rhoda with a bright future. On the night she finds out she was accepted into MIT, she kills three people in a drunk driving accident. At the same moment, another Earth is discovered. Same people, same places. And she's left to wonder - did the other me make the same mistake? Are those three people still alive on the other Earth? SO. FASCINATING.
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To tie this to fiction, you may be interested in the following:
ReplyDelete"The concept of a person responsible for another individual's death later meeting a close relative of the deceased without revealing his or her identity and then falling in love with that person was also explored in Graham Greene's novel, The Tenth Man."
From Wikipedia's page on Another Earth
Graham Greene is super chic. You should check it out.
Fascinating concept. I know the guilt of doing such a thing would probably almost destroy me.
ReplyDeleteGreat subject! I'll have to check that film out. I've been fascinated by alternate reality fiction lately -- much of which is appearing in interesting ways on TV. The Once Upon a Time series has a fairy tale / real world parallel, as does the series Fringe. Plenty of SciFi and fantasy titles use alternate realities, such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle (alternate ending to WWII), or Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series (starting with Seventh Son -- set in an alternate 19th-century America). The popular His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman (which starts with The Golden Compass) is an example of the "steampunk" alternate history.
ReplyDeleteOnce Upon a Time is interesting because the characters are essentially unaware of their alternate worlds and identities. I've seen a few episodes of the show so far
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